Tea Time is part of a larger project in collaboration with artists Justin Langlois and Holly Schmidt, Aaniya Asrani, Annie Canto, and Ashkan Maleki taking place at Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver.
*Concession is a new socially engaged art project that explores the social and infrastructural context of ‘concession stands’ as a site for storytelling and dialogue around generosity, exchange, compromise, and permissions.
By utilizing existing concession stands in Vancouver Parks and community centres, the project will revolve around short and long-term participatory artworks created by emerging artists working with local food producers. These artworks will become an opportunity for iterative prototyping for the larger Concession project, with an aim to develop new forms of artist residencies, alternative social enterprises, and food-based infrastructures that expand how we think of food as a form of experiential storytelling.
TEA is about the quality of being, the quality of stillness and presence, the quality of thinking. It is about participation, engagement, reflection, revealing, sharing, learning with others.
Above everything it is about time.
